Juventudes e política: organização, formação e luta do Levante Popular da Juventude no estado de Pernambuco

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Silva Filho, Sidney Oliveira Santos
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; UFRN; PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS
• Palavras-chave em Português: Juventudes; Participação; Engajamento; Movimento social
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/45685

The thesis presented was elaborated from theoretical and methodological investigations about the theme of political participation of young people in contemporaneity. It is important to highlight that the forms of organization, mobilization and political action of youngsters have guided a considerable amount of research studies about the topic. It is also noteworthy that the new contemporary social movements, especially led by youngsters, from 2013 onwards, take on a certain social and political role in the country's manifestations, marches and street protests. Hence, the general objective of this research was to analyze the processes of organization, formation and striving of the youths that make up the social movement Levante Popular da Juventude, in the state of Pernambuco. The specific objectives were: a) to identify the sociability relationships, the collective experiences and the demands of the youths of Levante Popular da Juventude; b) understand how the engagement and participation processes of the young individuals that compound the movement take place; c) carry out a mapping of the actions and repertoires of collective action on the three fronts of the movement. As for the methodological procedures, initially, a literature review was carried out on the theme of youth participation in contemporary social movements. As for a second moment, a work of participant observation, in which the researcher, during a period of two years, followed the routine and the schedule of the social movement, being present on training courses, camps, collective processes of organization, actions, acts and activities. In the last phase of the research, interviews were conducted with the young people who make up the group Levante Popular da Juventude Pernambuco. After carrying out the study, the thesis defended is that Levante Popular da Juventude is positioned as a space that allows the redefinition of forms of engagement and participation of youth in contemporaneity. The symbolic field formed through mystique, identities, feelings of belonging, affection and collectivity, typical of this social movement, builds an identity of resistance that sets itself as a reference within the processes of organization, formation and striving of the social movement.